The Daily Zeitgeist - R U Serious Rudy? Havana Mystery Solved? 9.23.19

Episode Date: September 23, 2019

In episode 479, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian Dana Donnelly to discuss Fox & Friend's thoughts on the climate strike, a classic unhinged Giuliani interview, a possible explanation to the Havana syndrome, a correction on the millennials growing horns story, caffeinated yogurt, Halloween costumes, 6ix9ine testifying in court, a Rambo: Last Blood review, and more! FOOTNOTES:1. Fox & Friends attacks students participating in global climate strike, then immediately reports on catastrophic rain and flooding in Texas2. Giuliani Admits He Asked Ukraine To ‘Look Into’ Biden In Unhinged CNN Interview3. This is Rudy Giuliani absolutely melting down in 60 seconds.4. Rudy Giuliani Will Be Lucky To Get Custody Of Both His Old Man Balls In This Divorce5. Havana syndrome: Exposure to neurotoxin may have been cause, study suggests6. Author Correction: Prominent exostosis projecting from the occipital squama more substantial and prevalent in young adult than older age groups7. Turns out smartphones aren't making millennials grow horns after all8. We really, really want to believe in caffeinated yogurt9. Taco Bell Halloween Costumes10. ‘Sexy Mr. Rogers’ costume drops just in time for Halloween 201911. 6ix9ine Testifies That Jim Jones Is a Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods Member, Calls Him a Retired Rapper: Report12. RAMBO: LAST BLOOD13. ‘Rambo: Last Blood’ Is A Rollicking Good Time Of Hyper-Violent Xenophobic Revenge Fantasies14. Ronbo15. Rambo Has Always Been Right Wing16. WATCH: Devaloop - Suffer No Fools (Instrumental) Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hello, the internet, and welcome to season 101, episode 101. Two dailies, aight guys? A production of iHeartRadio. This is a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness and say officially off the top, fuck Coke Industries and fuck Fox News. It's Monday, September 23rd, 2019. My name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. His takes are on fire.

His name is O'Brien. He doesn't know what to do with his hands. He's got them in the back pockets of his pants. A little Lana Del Rey for that ass. And I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host Mr. Miles Ray! Lately there seems to be some insecurities

about the vacay I took in Italy, but I know it's with you. No one can take away my tusk knee. Yeah, you No one can take away my Tuscany. Never to be mistaken, long as this tank's I'm making,

there's going to be some jack, going to beat the pack. But as long as I know your time will show, Our pod will grow. And I know Miles will be right here. Be right here. Okay, I'm just stopping it right there because it's too much. And I'm not getting a check. I should have been in Sisters with Voices, a.k.a. SWB, but I was too old. And also, thank you so much. I already shouted you out last week.

But Ross and Andy in the morning at RossXAndy for that SWE. Ross and Andy in the morning. I don't know how you did it. Are they a radio show? Don't know. But I'm not taking a shot at you. It looks like two Muppets. Wow.

Is their avatar. Yeah. It's two Muppets as their avatar. I'm not calling y'all Muppets in the UK sense. No, definitely not taking a shot at them. No, no, no. Just saying they look like Muppets. Shout out to Muppets as our avatar. I'm not calling y'all Muppets in the UK sense. No, definitely not taking a shot at them. Nah, nah, nah. Just saying they look like Muppets. Shout out to Muppets, though.

Well, we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the hilarious writer, Dana Donnelly. Hello. Hello. Welcome. What's going on? Welcome, welcome. Thank you for having me. Yeah, we're excited to have you.

We're huge fans of your writing. Your tweeting, yeah. I feel like regularly when we call out our tweets, it's probably one of your tweets every other day. Yeah. That's amazing. I'm so happy to hear that. And I think one episode Steve Hernandez was on,

and one of my tweets was a tweet that you wrote, and he was like, oh, you got to get David. I was like, you know her? And he's like, yeah, she's around. I'm like, where did this person come from? Hell yeah. And behold, you have manifested here. That's so funny. Yeah, yeah, yeah so funny yeah yeah yeah so welcome thank you well we're gonna get to know you a little bit better in a moment first we're gonna tell our listeners a few of the things we're

talking about today uh we're gonna talk about the climate strike at the end of last week uh we're gonna talk uh what we know at this early stage you you might know more, but we're going to just evaluate what we know of the Trump whistleblower story. I think the Havana mystery has- Been solved? Maybe. It might have been solved. It's the best theory I've heard so far. You can finally go to sleep at night.

We are going to issue a correction. Millennials are not growing horns uh on the backs of their heads i know oh off top also another correction right now shout out to all the lds mormon zeitgang members who corrected me on the nomenclature of uh non-pumping penetrative sex that mormon kids have it's not called floating it's called soaking i mean which sounds fucking worse yeah way worse or docking whatever but yo yeah thank you i'm really surprised at the It's not called floating. It's called soaking. I mean. Which sounds fucking worse. Yeah. Way worse. Or docking, whatever. But yo.

Yeah. Thank you. I'm really surprised at the amount of people in my mentions are like, it's actually called soaking. Soaking has like a old man getting in a tub, like housework vibe to it. I don't like it. Floating is much better. Anyway.

Floating is more whimsical. Yeah. Exactly. You know what I mean? It makes sense when you're trying to convince yourself you're not having sex, therefore disappointing God. We're not just floating. We're just floating in God's love. Yeah.

You know what I mean? We're going to talk about caffeinated yogurt. We're going to talk about some early pics for Miles' Halloween costume. We're going to talk about Tekashi69. He's doubling down on being the most marked for death human on the planet. The weird politics of the Rambo franchise. Apparently the newest Rambo is just all sorts of problematic. I mean, we knew from that trailer, though.

Yeah. I didn't realize that it was set on the border and that it was. Right. Yeah. I thought it was actually set in like a South American country or something, but no. It's... We're going to have to go see it. That's really the bottom line.

Yeah, we really do need to go see it. The last one was just like laugh out loud violent. Wanton violence. Yeah. Laugh out loud violence is not a thing that i knew existed prior to that movie well like early robert rodriguez films are like yeah we're gonna talk about uh instagram too but first dana we like to ask our guests what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are okay so first of all i realized that i've had my uh iphone on private

browsing since like when i was told to look at my search history. But when I turned off private browsing, the last thing I had searched was what Imagine Dragons is an anagram for. Because apparently there's some big mythology behind it. Oh, really? Well, no, most people think it's bullshit. Can you swear?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, only when we talk about Imagine Dragons. Most people think it. Oh, really? Well, no, most people think it's bullshit. Can you swear? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, only when we talk about Imagine Dragons. Like, most people think it's bullshit, but apparently there's like a million different, like, they claim that there's an anagram that they will never tell what it is. Really? Yeah, and then the only, like, everyone's like, maybe it's like agonizing dreams, but

Is that what, wait. That's like the top Where's the Z in Imagine Dragons? Oh. Oh, I guess it's spelled in, like, the English way, with an S? Is it spelled with a Z That's like the top. Where's the Z in Imagine Dragons? Oh. Well, I guess it's spelled in like the English way with an S. Is it spelled with a Z? I don't know. Is dragons pluralized with a Z? Honestly, the Reddit thread is really confusing. What did you find?

Was there anything that was funny? Because we like anagrams around here. Yeah, we do. Honestly, not really. Mostly it's just like there's this Rolling Stone article that's like there's no meaning to it i mean but i guess even they need to do that because they're there's nothing deep about their band at all so it's like money rock which i'll oh money rock yeah money rock on any block um yeah i feel like then they need to be like it's actually way deeper like right it's not just merely imagining dragons it's it actually there's a whole other world it's a great way

consciousness we're tapping into. It's a great way to excuse your shitty band name. It's to just be like, yeah, it's actually an anagram for something else. Yeah. Well, and it's the one everyone jokes about. Right. Literally just saying like, imagine dragons. Yeah.

Like, seriously. Not imagine. Seriously. Imagine. I think it's like a Billy Wayne tweet that I was thinking of. What is something you think is overrated? Overrated, I think it's like a Billy Wayne tweet that I was thinking of what is something you think is overrated overrated I think coffee

tasting good is overrated to me I don't drink coffee for it to taste good and I've never like tried to make

my coffee taste good purely for it's a caffeine delivery mechanism exactly yeah you should try this doesn't taste good

at all I kind of like when coffee doesn't taste good at all. I kind of like, I kind of like when coffee doesn't taste good. I'm like, I know it's working. Oh, then buckle up. I mean,

look, I'm not really a taste person either because I'm not, I don't, I don't drink coffee or I only drink it for the caffeine. So when I've had, when I've been to places where like I was in Japan and I went to like a coffee spot where it was like this very mythical bean from wherever. And like I was going to be like, oh, do you have like cream?

They're like, oh, we don't have cream here. And I was like, all right, fool, whatever. Like, motherfucker, I paid $7 for this little fucking cup of coffee. Give me my fucking cream. I mean, that's apparently like in Japan, you're not supposed to like put your fish in soy sauce or they'll give you worse fish or something really what do you mean because it's like insulting well it depends i mean if you're dipping it correctly for your sushi maybe the one thing you don't do is don't put fucking soy sauce on your rice okay we'll get your shit get your shit canceled all i can think about is that do you guys watch billions uh no no um there's just this episode where one of the characters is in this really high-end sushi

route because Brian Koppelman or whatever is really into food. And there's this whole lesson on how to eat sushi or not eat sushi. Oh, right. Well, yeah. People are very particular. It's like, well, you got to lay it on. Don't just dunk the rice in it. Get a little bit on the fish.

It's not meant to taste like soy sauce. It's merely meant to enhance the flavor of the fish and the texture. But then why does the most high-end sushi place, Sugarfish, have soy sauce on the rice? It's for white people. Well, no. What?

Sugarfish? It's for white people. That's as high class as it gets. It's like a fast food restaurant for agents. Right. That's what Sugarfish is. That's what the for agents. Right. It's really sugar fishes. The vibe isn't that.

Right. What is something you think is underrated? Underrated? I think Cold Stone Creamery in Baskin Robbins. Like the old school in quotes. Ice cream places. I do. I love artisan ice cream.

But I think there's really something about Cold Stone. You can make any flavor of ice cream you want. I think a lot of people are overwhelmed by choice, but I love it. I get cake batter with Twix in it. Whoa. Yeah, it's crazy. It's so good. And then I do think Baskin Robbins is the only ice cream store that has this flavor like peanut butter chocolate.

Yeah, huge chunks of peanut butter. I i think it was so good uh i used to work at a laser tag place uh for those people who know the la area the valley particularly ultra zone if you've ever had a birthday you probably went there um downstairs from us was a cold stone and i used to trade uh the people up there for like laser tag games in exchange for like the ice cream. And I used to disrespect myself in front of that like cold stone slab. Cause it would just be like, whatever, like we'll hook it up.

And I would make things that didn't taste good, but just like, because of the ability, your ambition. Yeah. And then like, I remember the third time I did it, one of the people was like,

can I tell you like what my favorite thing is? And I was like, yeah. And they like made this like, like of the people was like, can I tell you what my favorite thing is? And I was like, yeah. And they made this whatever the apple pie Alamo one was. Amazing. One thing underrated at Cold Stone Creamery, the sweet cream ice cream. It is. That they use as the base for the other shit. That shit on its own, I'm here for it.

Just on a, is that the main one that they use? Well, it depends on what the flavor. It's very nondescript flavor. It's more like a sweet cream. It's not like vanilla or anything. So it's really good. Like more places should have like just a sweet flavor. I think more places do.

Cause I've noticed they have it at, I think they have like a version of it at Jenny's ice cream. Oh yeah. Okay. Love Jenny's. Yeah. Especially when they had that listeria breakout. Did they?

This was like three years ago. I don't mean to fuck up my practice versus, but you know. Is cake batter, when they put the cake batter in, is it like uncooked cake batter? No, it's just a cake batter flavored ice cream.

Oh, got it. So it's like ice cream that tastes like when you eat uncooked cake batter. And then just Twix just mashed in there. Yeah, and it kind of like freezes the Twix

when you put it in the ice cream. And so it has like a very hard consistency. It's good. I like freezes the Twix when you put it in the ice cream. And so it has a very hard consistency. It's good. I like a refrigerated Twix. Oh, yeah. Frozen candy bars. There's nothing like it.

Yeah, I only recently started coming around to frozen candy bars. I used to be like, it's going to break my teeth. Because I'm usually high and I want to eat it fast. So biting a Snickers, I remember, was shocking the first time. You can't trust yourself. But I had like a room temperature Snickers for the first time yesterday because I always like keep them in the fridge. And it was not good.

It really let me down. It's too mushy. Yeah. Yeah, I can see how if you're used to the sort of – Like the nougat tastes a lot better when it's like hard, I think. We'll have to do a taste test. Yeah. What is a myth?

What's something people think is true, you know, to be false or vice versa? Okay. I couldn't think of a good one. So I thought of alcohol shouldn't taste good either. In the same way that coffee, I don't think it should taste good or like, I don't think it needs to taste good. I also don't think alcohol needs to taste good. I think it's like, I love virgin cocktails because it's like really concentrated

like juice ingredients without alcohol yeah there's so much sugar right and it's like i mean all good cocktails are like essentially um i guess in theory trying to like complement the like alcohol but really it's like how much can you mask it sure um and so i also don't think alcohol should have to taste good so you're just like it's here to do a job. Yeah, I love to take a shot. I love like a vodka water. Vodka water? Vodka water instead of soda. Because sometimes drinking like fizzy things, I don't know.

Interesting. It can upset my stomach. I'm not supposed to sell it to your stomach. I've never really loved carbonation. Wow. It's also, maybe carbonated. Carbonation not supposed to taste good. Yeah.

So you have an anti-carbonation agenda, it sounds like. I do. I do. I'm pushing yeah so you have an anti-carbonation agenda i do yeah i'm pushing out here pushing my anti-carbonation agenda so how do you feel about those spike seltzers um i do like a white claw i like it um but i think it it just it's a lot it's like hype and i wanna i wanna like enjoy something that everyone else is enjoying right yeah yeah i mean is claw? Doesn't it not taste alcoholic? It doesn't. It's pretty stealthy. You can't taste it. And I've slowly started coming around to the power of the claw.

The power of the claw. Or the seltzers. Because in a way, like you're saying, it's there to do a job. And sometimes when you don't notice and you can just kind of be like, I was grilling outside and I was drinking one. I was like, you know what? This is actually, this is alright. Right. Yeah, I had a white claw last night and I was drinking one. I was like, you know what? This is actually, this is all right. Right. Yeah, I had a white claw last night and I got accidentally like drunker than I anticipated

because you just can't. Yeah, off the claw. Get clobbered. Clobbered. You know what I mean? Claws out. Get clobbered. Let's talk about the climate strike, you guys.

Oh, yeah. That was on Friday. They were happening everywhere. That was on Friday. They were happening everywhere. 1.1 million students walked out in New York because the school superintendent of New York was like, you're good. Go fight for your planet. I think it was like 4,000 actions, I think, all across the globe.

Yeah, they really did it. These kids, these damn kids. Let's hear what Fox News had to say. It's just a tonally like going from being impressed by, you know, the activism and the, you know, how proactive and successful they were at accomplishing this. Let's hear Fox News. Today is a day in which your kids might not be going to school. If they live in New York City. Because. It's the global climate strike day right it's a time to the best thing you could do

for climate problems is not go to work we'll go to school well scream on the grass and make a sign listen people are going to be protesting from 150 different countries including as you can see right there Australia that's some of the people who have gathered here in New York City. 1.1 million public school kids have been told they could skip class to go and take part in today's activities. Yeah, the mayor says you get an excused absence if you want to leave your classroom today in New York. And what they're demanding is to end the use of fossil fuels here on planet Earth. And, of course, the Democrats have, who are running for president, are embracing climate change.

That was very op. Yeah. And then they go into a package of all the candidates being like, it's a problem. We're going to fucking die if we don't do something soon. And then it's a hard cut too.

And breaking news in Houston. Catastrophic flooding. Catastrophic flooding flooding everywhere it's like please stay safe actually people out there a couple of you sent me some very frightening images of where you live please stay safe but it's just so dismissive they're just like and these little kiddies get to be

off of school today and make their little signs it's like no hold up motherfucker because I'm assuming they probably have children who are also inheriting this trash earth we're leaving behind. So, you know, everyone is going to benefit from this, and that's about making signs. And just fucking the whole energy behind it.

Like, the way they started it sounded like when local news does, like, a PSA to, like, bring bring charitable gifts like gifts to a charity for christmas right hi we're the fox news team and then the next person takes over it's like during the holidays it's important like the way the cadence of it was odd just to be so dismissive and yeah it's an urgent problem but yeah you know we we get it they see this as like a culture war thing and not like science yeah well democrats are embracing climate change um yeah it's just pretty stark to see the difference between like those assholes and then you know kids who are actually going to have to live most of their lives with the consequences of

two degree celsius climate change and miami being underwater and just everything being fucked up. Yeah. I'm curious, of those 1.1 million students, how many actually went to the climate strike? How many kids were fucking around and smoking weed at the park instead of going to class? Probably most of them. You know what I mean? I'm curious because in my mind, sadly,

and I grew up in a different time, okay? It was a pre-9-11 world. I was in high school pre and post 9-11. But then if you told me there was a day off to do like something socially active, I would have been fucking straight to the LA River to smoke weed. Oh, so I'm sure like, you know, it's like whatever, like 5% of those kids are like actually climate change. Oh, I wonder. But I'm sure.

But you know, it's funny too when you look at the research though like demographically like Gen Z like for sure is like no no like they're fucking yeah they're taking it seriously so you know what that's why I'm a trash ass elder millennial man yeah I mean they're doing drugs while they climate

right yeah just vape volcano los dos they're going home they're saying ma I want Just vape. Like, volcano los dos. Ma, I want to vape. Save the planet. They're going home. They're saying, ma, I want to vape. And then they're going to the climate march. Yeah. Yeah.

I mean, you can definitely hold up your signs while high. Right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's more fun. That's beautiful. Oh, it's always great to get out and just among the people and enjoy the good earth. Yeah, yeah. All right.

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And we're back. And Miles, tell me what. I tried to explain the Trump whistleblower story at the end of last week, and I totally fucked it up, and then you smoothly explained it. Oh, I wouldn't. Just because a couple instagram accounts i run were spamming you with comments about that doesn't mean that's how it

went down no no but that's i'm glad you noticed that um but i i didn't believe that so uh yeah so we got the report right there was a whistleblower in the intelligence community who was basically saying that the president made a promise to some kind of foreign leader on the phone or some other shit and we don't know what the fuck kind of deal was being made then on friday or thursday night we find out a little more details it turns out he was talking to volodymyr zelensky who is the president of ukraine except we didn't know who and try and spell that correctly okay uh but yes he was talking to vladimir uh zielinski and essentially saying like he wanted the ukraine to investigate joe biden's son hunter uh or whatever the whatever his other kid's name is over a business deal and some kind of corrupt

agreement where some were like a prosecutor who was investigating the deal joe b Biden said he was corrupt and should step down, and therefore it looked like Joe Biden was trying to dead the case to keep his son safe. Right. And this was when Joe Biden was vice president? Was vice president. Got it. First of all, none of that is actually true. There was an article written in the New York Times by a woman who eventually became the spokesperson, I think, for the president. It was weird, essentially saying, you know, Rudy the president. It was weird, like, essentially saying, like,

you know, Rudy Giuliani, or, like, he's been talking about this story, and then the last paragraph's sort of like, but no, no, we can't really verify any of that. So it's almost like, why did you even write this story if you're going to say all this shit, and the last paragraph is like, but, you know, honestly, we don't know.

It was a New York Times opinion piece by somebody who was talking about Hunter Biden, like, having weird ties, weird business deals. And there's a lot of shit Giuliani was saying out loud. And anyway, so he wanted to follow that thread because obviously he's just basically dangling like the, I think the $250 million in military aid we give to Ukraine, basically saying like, cause the U S cut that shit off and like, you want, you want the money back?

Right. Maybe you should look into Joe Biden essentially saying like, I'm going to use taxpayer dollars to fund an oppo research campaign, uh, for political aims, not anything to do with like regional security there or to limit the fucking power of Russia in the, in the region.

So they're saying, don't they have something going on with Russia? Yeah. Yeah. They're currently, yeah. Homie Putin, they're line stepping over there in Ukraine. And so, you know, essentially they're like don't they have something going on with russia yeah yeah they're currently yeah homie putin they're line stepping over there in ukraine and so you know essentially they're like yo fucking smear biden and you get your cash is what it all boils down to yeah and you know there

are so many people like a lot of constitutional scholars too who are like every day is a fucking nightmare but like to take it here now where you're like you're using your influence and foreign aid to exert power or influence over another country to help you for your reelection campaign. Right. That's like some other shit. I mean, it's all this. This whole administration has been some other shit. Yeah. But the best part, right, is before all this happened, we were talking like earlier in the year how Rudy Giuliani has been going to Ukraine and trying to talk to people.

And we've always been like, I think he's just trying to dig up dirt for Trump um so when all this came out it made all of his trips to Ukraine look extra shitty because they're like I think this is what we suspected the whole time so my man Rudy Giuliani goes on fucking CNN Chris Cuomo and this is just the wildest shit this this is what happens when senile grifters are trying to cover for each other on live television. Biden said to the Ukraine, did you ask the Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden? No, actually, I didn't. I asked the Ukraine to investigate the allegations that there was interference in the election of 2016 by the Ukrainians for the benefit of Hillary Clinton, for which there already is a never asked anything about Hunter Biden.

You never asked anything about Joe Biden. The only thing I asked about Joe Biden is to get to the bottom of how it was that Lutsenko, who was appointed, dismissed the case against Antac. So you did ask Ukraine to look into Joe Biden? Of course I did. You just said you didn't. No, I didn't ask him to look into Joe Biden. I asked him to look into the allegations that related to my client, which tangentially involved Joe Biden in a massive bribery scheme.

Not unlike what he did in China. Rudy, you explain to me how the kid got. I just cut this motherfucker off. All I asked about Joe Biden is for them to look into the thing. So you asked about Joe Biden. Of course I did. You just said you did it, my guy. Oh, man.

I just want to point something out, a side note, about Rudy Giuliani. He's in the middle of a messy fucking divorce. So his ex-wife, that he's in the process of divorcing, apparently they're just getting fights all the time at this country club. When they see each other, they start yelling at each other in public.

They're trying to be like, please don't interact with each other. It's just a mess. And they can't help themselves. His wife, yo, when Rudy Giuliani was campaigning, his wife basically demanded that there's always an extra seat next to her for her Louis bag.

So you know what? That's queen shit. So she's very chill. But also, okay, interesting. And then as this divorce went on, so Rudy Giuliani was making like maybe between like eight and nine million dollars a year working for this law firm. He quit his job. So it would look like his income was severely less.

So he could get out of paying like spousal support. But there is a- The courts know about this kind of fucking tactic right and they will impute income for to use a legal term but essentially saying like they're gonna look at what your earning power is and actually determine what like your payments are based off of that you can't just work because that's why i just play dead well that's why he's working for the president for free right to be like well you know i'm this for free, so I don't really have money coming in, therefore I can't do stuff. Yet, he, like, had to borrow

$100,000 from, like, one of the partners at his legal firm to pay his taxes, but then has money to pay for, like, a private jet subscription that's, like, $50,000 a year or something like that. Subscription? Yes. Net jet? I guess one of those shits, yeah, where it's like, hey, man, like, you know, you kind of all pitch in

on this jet and use it whenever. It's like a casual timeshare of a plane. Do you use it a lot? Net jet? Yeah. No. You just said it so fair. I mean, I'm from Silicon Valley, so everyone there is really into that kind of thing.

So how do you do it? You pay your 50K? Yeah. It's essentially you're just buying into being able to use use a private plane like most of the time oh got it but then there are some blackout dates right exactly yeah got it um and then like but then he has money he was also like paying 40 000 for to have dental work done for his girlfriend's son oh shit rudy's in a fucking mess right now um so you know he's got a lot on his plate and then on top of that he's you know entering the twilight years of his life right and trying to lie on tv

with people who are sharp and are listening to the words he's saying he can't just like shit out his mouth so bad at lying he contradicts his lies all the time from one sentence to the next um so yeah it only makes the whole situation look much worse. Yeah. And like I was totally on board Trump 2020, but when I heard they're fucking with Hunter Biden, I don't know if you read the New Yorker profile about him, but he's such a lovable fuck up.

Is he? Yeah. He's just constantly, you know, getting sober, relapsing, and, like, going on these incredible benders where it's just, like, the people who, like, he's renting cars from are like, yo, man, you need to get help. Like, there's cocaine all over the place in there. All over the car?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Wow. He's probably doing, like, bumps off his, like, wrist with the windows down. But he's just, like, so earnest and just just like like at one point when he was clean he like gave a homeless person like a place to live for like a couple months like in it in his apartment he's just like a good dude but also battling some shit can't get over his demons again i have friends like that too like you know you love them god love them. God love them. Yeah. You know, they're struggling sometimes.

But like the Biden campaign is very stressed out about him. They're like, yeah, I'm going to be a liability. Well, this is the thing. Like, it's funny. He's for all the focus that's on, you know, Biden. Like there's two other people behind him who are beating his ass in the polls just as equally. Right. But in his mind, he's like, he's got to take down old blood eye.

Right. To keep his reelection intact. I mean, this seems like the best thing that could possibly happen to Biden, right? Trump, like, taking aim at him? Sure. Of course. It makes it seem like he's more of a threat than he is. Yeah, exactly.

Because he's like, wow, he's like basically violating the Constitution to try and take me down. Right. Why are you so obsessed with me? It probably gives him a lot of faith in his campaign. Right.

And it also, you know, his main argument right now is like, look, you might not like me, but I'm going to beat Trump. Yeah. So like, yes, I suck. But like,

just stick with me past the primaries and I'll beat Trump. That was also Hillary's campaign which didn't work. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. I'm going to mop the floor with this dude. Oh was also Hillary's campaign, which didn't work. Yeah, exactly. I'm going to mop the floor with this dude. Oh, just wait, look at these numbers.

And then Biden's like, man, the same way I almost fucked up these black gang members at a pool, I'm going to fuck Trump up. The straight razor, man. Who told you to say that shit? You guys know how you have a straight razor that you soak overnight in a rain barrel and then you come, that's one of the things he said. Everyone's like, what? Soak you soak overnight in a rain barrel and then you come that's one of the things he said everyone's like what soak a straight razor in a rain barrel yeah what

the fuck is that supposed to do i have no idea i think make it rusty so that it's like oh so well but like that doesn't make it sharper no but it would get like tetanus or something yeah yeah what the fuck i don't know it's been a while since I talked to Corn Pop. Yeah. R.I.P. R.I.P. Let's talk about a story that we touch on like every four months or so. Yeah. The mysterious attack on the Cuban embassy that caused basically the Trump administration to completely pull out of Cuba, stop any sort of diplomatic progress that was being made by the Obama administration.

And also, you know, it was just a real juicy news story because it was like, yeah, they're using mystery sci-fi weapons on us. Basically, people started feeling all sorts of fucked up after hearing this really weird noise. And my theory had been that this seemed a lot like mass hysteria uh because the symptoms that the people had were also symptoms of aging like slight hearing loss right but they it was like specific though too right they were hearing right but then there were also these reports that uh there were actually differences in the brain scans which my theory didn't uh make like couldn't explain away so um but i i just i had a feeling it wasn't going to be super sci-fi weapons that uh the u.s military

didn't know existed right so the cbc is reporting a new study that's not like, well, they made it up, but it's also not that it's all in their head, like I suspected. So the new information that I hadn't heard anywhere else is that there was a trend of people getting mysterious illnesses starting in 2016 while in Cuba and while while in Havana specifically, after returning from travel there or when they were there. And they often complained of a buzz or high-pitched whine prior to getting sick. And so they did, the Canadians, you know, being the sober-minded, friendly people that they are, just did a study on the brains of people who had been to Cuba and found that there were differences between their brains before they went and after

they went, and also differences between the brains of people who went to Cuba and people who didn't. But specifically, like, these were not diplomats. These were not spies. So it's just didn't make sense. Like why didn't make sense? Right. They're not. Well, yeah. Are they targeting them is the question.

And they noticed that it was the damage was specific to a part of the brain that's responsible for memory, concentration, sleep and wake cycle. And then they started looking into what can injure that part of the brain. And neurotoxins was like the number one thing. Okay. And then they realized that 2016, when all these illnesses started happening, was when Zika started and Cuba started doing some real heavy doses of a particular pesticide that isn't used in North America. Oh, so these people basically just got hit with a bunch of Roundup or something?

Yeah, exactly. But with Cuban Roundup that has a neurotoxin in it that North Americans can't handle, apparently. I still think it's spices in the food. It could be that, yeah. Or Wawonkul. But yeah, so I mean, this makes a lot more sense it also you know is a much less sensational explanation are you satisfied with this i am because it makes sense of like the things that i found suspicious like the fact that it would have been physically

impossible for any of the things that they, that the Trump administration was suggesting could happen. But it also like, it is a mental thing or a neurological thing. It's just, it does have a chemical cause, I guess. All right. Well,

yeah, we, we closing the case on that one. Yeah. I don't know. Researchers from Canada are looking to collaborate with cuban officials to determine whether any cubans suffered similar brain injuries uh so that'll help them determine like whether this is actually the case but that just seems like a healthier way to

approach the investigation or a very novel way to fuck some people up is just put wild neurotoxin all over like the buildings are going in and be, that'll probably fuck them up a little bit. Yeah, but a lot of the people that they were fucking up had nothing to do with diplomacy or spying or anything like that. Look, I'm just trying to create conspiracy theories. Yeah, I know you are, man. Need to stop. Leave Cuba alone.

But yeah, I don't know. Working with Cuba seemed like Cuban officials from the start have been like, we don't know what's happening but like let's work together to figure this out trump was like nice try spy slam the door in their face and run away um so yeah it's that's an update we can rest easy yeah we can rest or you can rest easy i can i will still be awake at night thinking about who's spraying what around my house yeah i mean I mean, they said that it's

like they were able to correlate people who had specifically bad symptoms with people who they were spraying more of the pesticide at their office or around their homes. Okay.

Should we go to corrections corner? I mean, yeah, wow. What a Okay. All right. Should we go to corrections corner? I mean, yeah. Wow. What a pretty big fuck up. Got egg on our face, man. Yeah. This is probably an entire genre of stories that we need to just be wary of. Anytime it's something that millennials are doing differently that is causing some sort of dramatically devastating or just like creepy impact.

Right. devastating or just like creepy impact. We should be skeptical also, especially if it's smartphones or video games or any newish technology that old people are scared of. Right. The story was about millennials texting so

much or looking down so much they're growing horns at the base of their skull or some shit. And we're like, what the fuck is that? I mean, so apparently it's grossly exaggerated. Like they couldn't really find a connection between those two things.

Wait, but was someone growing horns? No, it's like there's these like calcium deposits in their spines that they were saying are more prominent. But the science that it was based on is complete bullshit. Like the, so it wasn't just, you know, us misreading the study.

The study had to be corrected. Like, that's why this is now coming out. They actually issued a correction to the article. Uh, they had to, like, they changed the sentences that everybody quoted or they just took them out.

Like, uh, the quote horn at the back of the head that whole thing was taken out uh oh just like a concept of the horn in general yes maybe linked to sustained aberrant postures associated with handheld contemporary technologies was taken out so it's basically nothing now like a study that nobody would have paid attention to uh and they also added the fact that one of the authors of the paper sells services claiming to treat the issue uh of forward head posture like how the whole anti-vax started yeah it's like oh yeah mmr vaccines uh go fuck your kid up also i've got this alternative to the mmr vaccine right yeah and like that story the thing that is probably more likely to stick in people's heads is,

holy shit, they got horns coming out the back of their heads, these kids these days. It's always- More than like people get news story wrong. Well, typically it's always millennials are ruining wedding ring industry. Millennials are ruining home buying. Right. And really it's every headline can just be millennials are broke as fuck right it's really what it is not that there's we're not ruining it's like we don't have money to to and we don't have the wealth accumulation that these

other generations do so in this one i wonder if it's like millennials are so poor they're growing horns or whatever the fuck they could spin that into right millennials do have bad posture right it would seem it just seems like terrible man yeah i have really bad posture but i feel like it's just not something that our generation has been taught to prioritize. No.

Or our parents would. people have bad posture too. Well really old people but that's only because they're like scoliosis or

something. Yeah my posture. Nah fuck them we got better posture. It's all about posture. It's all about pelvic tilt when you

sit you know a lot of things. You fucked me up with that pelvic tilt thing. Yeah. I was constantly aware of it. You fucked me up with that pelvic tilt thing. Yeah. I was constantly aware of. It's a gateway to twerking, though.

Tilt of my pelvis. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, it's true that we have bad posture, but I don't know. What do we have to compare it to, like, past generations? I don't know. If I just look at photos, you know, like, people stand upright as fuck. But also, those are when, like, a photo took, like, 15 seconds to take. Right. And that's also, like, the only photo you get taken right you gotta make

your lifetime yeah you're like i'm putting on a fucking tuxedo and i'm chest out fucking straight up yeah i stand up straight in pictures too but also yeah i don't know like i think but it's funny to look at generationally how like people pose differently in photos like i look at how my like grandparents would be in a photo especially on like the asian side of my family where this fuck is stoic as fuck yeah no smiling no smiling it's like we're here at the louv fuck you and then like and then like a rap album cover but then like their kids started smiling in photos and then their grandkids are like fucking full-on posing and shit so you, yeah. I think it's also just that we get more photos taken now. So it seems like you can kind of,

it's a more casual, relaxed experience. Yeah, for sure. I make sure to have my eyes closed and everything. Just to be like, he's so contemplative. Right. No, just to be like, man, that guy can't keep his eyes open. Oh, it's like he must be really tired.

Should we talk about caffeinated yogurt? Yes. Yeah. Just because, what the fuck? Pro-fuel. Oikos, makers of Greek yogurt, they got, yes, Oikos fucking Pro-fuel. I don't know why they needed, that name isn't good, but it is a fucking, what they describe as a caffeinated and cultured dairy drink.

Notice they can't say yogurt because I'm guessing it didn't reach the technical requirements to be considered a yogurt. But it's about now it's 25 grams of protein and 100 milligrams of caffeine. I don't know how much is in a cup of coffee. And I guess a cup of coffee is like 130 or something like that. Yeah. Wow. OK, got caffeine expert that. Wow. Okay. Caffeine expert here.

Yeah. So what's that going to... I mean, I guess if you're sensitive, you'll love something. It's just like a lightly caffeinated muscle milk, basically. But muscle milk... Is it intended? Caffeine is good for working out. Are people going to use it as pre-workout? Is that the idea?

But you don't load up protein before you work on yeah yeah i think it's for people who i like to have a nice big milkshake before i go for a run it's like go gurt for adults that scream right it's basically what this shit is like it's like yeah man well because it's like in a it's like in a bottle that's like shaped so you can just chug it in your fucking commute or whatever so i guess a black bottle too so you know it's made for men yeah it's like it looks like it was designed by the same people who make axe body spray bottles yeah but the caffeine comes from the flesh of the coffee cherry not the nut that it turns into the bean that we use for coffee so what if that means anything to you uh great yeah but caffeinated.

I mean, I'll try it because I think it's interesting. But also there's something odd about caffeinated yogurt in general to me. I don't know. I think it sounds convenient. Right. It's like doesn't Soylent have like a caffeinated version? Probably. Have you had Soylent?

Yeah. It's not good. It's fucking really, really bad. Yeah. I mean, it's like passable. You know what I mean? Like, I'm like, I get it. If you're like, so like fucking every second of my life fucking counts. I don't have time to fucking eat.

I don't have time to shit. Right. I'm going to fucking drink Soylent. That's some Silicon Valley shit. Yeah, that is some Silicon Valley shit. But I think it's- We're optimizing the food consumption process. I think it is like just a certain type of person who values different things.

Right. Taste. Human experience. Yeah. Kind of stuff. But I guess if like your Lord and Savior is the almighty dollar, then like, yeah, you're like, dude, I don't have time to fucking look at my kids in the eye. Right.

Barely. Right. I sleep here at Google every day. Yeah. Soylent is also like unregulated. They did a dollop episode about it. Oh, really? It's a mess, man.

They had like the ingredients for it just like sitting out on a warehouse floor. What do you mean? Like were they manufactured? Yeah, they just had like a big pile of it on a tarp on a floor and like people were getting poisoned by it. They were getting like food poisoning from it and they had to do a bunch of recalls and shit jesus christ yeah so it's so

weird that they're branded as like some revolutionary product when it's like they're like insure has existed just mail replacement right yeah what i think because it was that whole like idea of like these rich motherfuckers are are pounding this shit because they can't they don't have time man right so if you're broke and an aspiring wealthy person right this is for you not to shit your grandma has to drink she had a stroke right it's fucking soylent man how do i tell people that i use apple products with my food right no i'm just kidding for real yeah oh boy uh all right let's take another quick break and we'll be right back.

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oh roughly like every four years half the time i'm like man i'm not going fucking out right or if i do then i do some half-assed costume but it's i only catch the true spirit every four years yeah um i don't know what i'm gonna be and see i don't have a family like you so i don't have i don't have no you know kids to be taking around the neighborhood yeah do you have a costume Dana oh yeah I love Halloween I have like a different costume every day

and also if it falls on a weird weekend where people go out two weekends I'll have like I have a costume so my main one this year

that I've started thinking about is did you guys see the Normani motivation music video yeah so I want to do

the 1996 white top do you make your own yeah I make most of my own stuff yeah like either like I'll find it or like you know know, I'm really good with scissors.

I do have a sewing machine, so I can do very basic things. Oh, shit. Okay. But it looks pretty like almost like tied together. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I think it'll be easy. And then I just have to spray paint 1996 on it. There you go.

Get your airbrushing out. Yeah. And then, I don't know. When I don't know, I'm usually like a cat. But I really like Instagram. When I don't know, usually a cat know i'm usually like a cat but i really like when i don't know usually i love instagramming all halloween weekend oh wow so do you have a entire do you have your costume programming already settled um that's definitely one of them so that's like definitely gonna be one night okay damn yeah there will be photos well we'll be stay tuned you'll see

um yeah i i more more or less just shoehorned this segment into the episode because taco bell just released a bunch of costumes and you know i'm i'm from hell so that's my blood type is fire sauce or diablo sauce uh but their costumes are so lazy but like in the most amazing way you could be a motherfucking gordita right okay not very impressive it looks like it's screen printed onto a fucking silk sheet uh they also have it for children if you want to show people you really don't care about your child's future and then they have like hot sauce packets uh for men and women yeah so there's a thotty version or it depends on if you want to thot it up you can can make it a little more thotty, or you can be in a little more generic sauce packet version.

Then I kind of started looking at what people are talking about in terms of the shitty costumes. There's a hot Mr. Rogers. Is there any other type of Mr. Rogers? That's true. Yeah. Okay. Point taken. That is just basically like Daisy Duke shorts.

Red sweater Red sweater and Like a playmate collar with a tie Wait did he rock a tie? I don't know this is what they're calling it No he did he wore a tie I think so In my mind I just think of his voice With no shirt underneath

Just a tie No practical purpose She's also wearing high heels where like his whole thing was that he would sit down and take his sneakers off

yeah well she'll probably take those off right yeah and then there was another one I just saw that just was a dress that had dollars

printed on it and it just said tariff spray paint on the front is that a political costume it must be but it's making it's like a political cartoon.

It's like one of those things that has a bag with an elephant sitting on it, and it's like the country. Right. Here's your tariff. Right. I mean, I'm curious to know who that appeals to. Someone goes,

I want a sexy costume that is going to make commentary about our trade war with china like where's that venn diagram yeah it's just like rant like they were like what what else is topical tariffs tariffs fucking just write tariff on our dress what happened that dollar dollar bills y'all dress we had from last year all right all right yeah i'm trying to think normani's a great like timely All right, reprint those. Last year. Reprint those with Tariff on the front. Right, right. Yeah, I'm trying to think. Normani's a great, like, timely, zeitgeisty costume.

Well, she's like a year younger than me, so it's like a fun. Got it. Oh, nice. You're like, actually, not really. I'm not really born in 96, but. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, we do what we gotta do. It's Halloween, yeah.

Right. Wait, you were born in 97? I was born in 95. 95. You're older. I'm older than Normani. Oh, I thought you said you were younger. Tragically's Halloween, yeah. Right. Wait, you were born in 97? I was born in 95. 95. You're older. I'm older than Normani. Oh, I thought you said you were older. Tragically for me, yeah.

Oh my God. Oh, how are you dealing with that? I'm so old. I had no idea. How are you dealing with that? Not well. Yeah, yeah. You know, it's hard.

Does that motivate a lot of your comedy? Feeling old. Or yeah, or just in comparison to Normani. Yeah, I think I, well, I also, I have a sister. She was born in 2002, so she's not even 18 yet and she's like really famous on instagram yes so um this that's a you know a huge part of my own brand yeah my own insecurity to your sister yes she's seven years younger than me i think i saw one of the first tweets i saw from you was about your sister and that you had an

ex-boyfriend who kept asking you her birthday. Oh, yeah. That was my first big tweet ever. There you go. Making moves out here. We'll keep covering. I think topical Halloween costumes is a good

way to just sort of monitor the zeitgeist. Yeah. Monitor the zeitgeist, not the zeitgang. We don't monitor you guys, I promise. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But please download the iHeartRadio app. App, yes.

And listen exclusively through there. And leave it open if possible, just in the background. Yeah, and allow microphone and camera access. And if you could just describe like your purchasing habits, that would be dope. Fantastic. Yeah. I'm trying to think, what would be the most 2019 costume i mean tariff is like a good example of the sort of thing it's like some shit from uh i mean i'm sure there's going to be some political ones about you know like ice

agents and then oh you know people being held in kids and kids. Dude, a Smirnoff ice agent? Oh, shit. I mean, I think that's a little too... A little too wacky. Creative to be a thing that a lot of people... Well, one year I was Pharrell Williams Wallace. And I was Pharrell mixed with William Wallace. You just had a Pharrell hat. I had that big ass like fucking Vivian Westwood hat. Yeah, yeah.

And then a blue face paint with like a babe shirt and a kilt. Hell yeah. Anyway. That's just an excuse to show off those legs, yeah. And then blue face paint with like a babe shirt and a kilt. Hell yeah. Anyway. That's just an excuse to show off those legs, man. Yeah, yo. Anything to rock a kilt. And man, those quads, man. You can see all four of them.

All right. Let's talk about Tekashi69. Yeah. Yeah. About time. About time. About time. So he's been in prison since he pled guilty to racketeering earlier this year, but there was a much anticipated trial where he was the star witness that just got a testifying at the end of last week.

And there was lots of content being spilt. He's basically, first of all, for those of you who don't know, Takashi69 is a New York rapper. He's got a bunch of face tattoos and a unicorn frap for hair. Yes. Unicorn frap colored braids. He acts real gangster and he was hanging around a lot of interesting people, gang members. And famously on The Breakfast Club, Charlemagne, and then we're like, you need to stop this.

This is not going to end well for you because we've seen this over and over. You want to align yourself with these hoodlums, as my grandmother would say, and it's going to lead, eventually one of these people is going to bring your whole shit down and you're going to be connected. This is not the look you want. Just do you. You're successful. You don't need all this other shit. He's like, fuck to be connected. This is not the look you want. Just do you. You're successful. You don't need all this other shit. He's like, fuck y'all.

I know what's best for me. Like any young person in their 20s. I get it. I also thought I knew everything at 22. So cut to now. And Charlamagne was like, we'll see where you are in about a year. Right. And cut to a year later.

And he's out here. He's in prison. Diming on fucking everybody. Diming on a lot of gang members. He was saying Jim Jones is a blood, which isn't really surprising. Right. Nothing new. Cardi B.

I think the thing that Jim Jones is going to be pissed off about is they asked him- Who he was? Yeah. Please tell us who Jim Jones is. And Tekashi 6ix9ine said, he's a retired rapper. How dare you? Damn. And then specifically identified him as retired rapper. How dare you. Damn. And then specifically identified him as a

blood and I don't know. He just seems like to be about as publicly marked for death as anyone since like the Tupac Biggie feud. I don't know. I mean he's definitely in protective custody in prison. Right. But he did admit he's like, they're like

are you doing this to like help the government or like, cause you're trying to help the government? Are you trying to get a lenient sentence? He's like, man, a little bit from column A, a little bit from column B. Gotta look out for myself. I did not, I underestimated how heavy this shit could get. Another interesting thing that we learned is he revealed that his strategy for building his career was inspired

by logan and jake paul wow honestly iconic uh j i was talking about the other day like how um like logan and jay like all the nick and aaron carter stuff that's going on it is very like what jake and logan have like almost like they've like modeled like fake feuds after like all these like weird like child brother stars like real feuds. Right. Right. Right. Does that make sense? It's like.

All their beef is fake. Right. All their beef is fake. Obviously. So fake. I had to disconnect from those two motherfuckers. Oh, I. I'm about to smash y'all.

Well, I'm like re into Jake Paul because I'm really into this influencer Tana Mongeau. Do you guys know Tana? Yeah. Yeah. That's the one who got married. She's now married. Yeah. Or had that fake ass marriage.

And they're openly like it's not on paper. It is fake. It was live streamed and y'all paid to see it. Exactly. And then there was like a fist fight. Well there was like a fake quote unquote. But it was like not convincing. If you watch, it was like really weird. I think it was just Jake Paul had someone throw champagne

on Tana at the altar. And it like I I don't think, I really don't think she was in on it because I watch her MTV reality show and it almost seems like Jake Paul kind of like wiggled his way into her life so he could be on this, so he could like take over the MTV show.

Whoa. Because she had the MTV show deal before they started hanging out. Yeah. Isn't that crazy? And now he's like featured. Yeah, and now he's like featured yeah and now he's like a main character in this like mtv reality show and that's how i got back into jake paul because i like really tried to dial it back working but now i'm back you're back you're all

i watch his music videos are so funny i mean it's every day. It's every day, bro. I do have a Jay Pauler sweatshirt. Oh, you down with Team 10? Yeah. It took like 10 weeks to get. Oh, for real? Yeah. So it's a shipping game, not on point. Not for Team 10.

Not every day. They're not out there shipping every day. There's some horribly abused intern somewhere. Oh, yeah. Being like, we're only 10 weeks behind. He's like i think that the the fabric paint is doing something in my brain i'm gonna start printing them motherfucking hoodies bro but yeah i mean every they're famous in a way that everybody that's their age would like to be

famous so like they didn't get that without a a little bit of genius and be a little bit of a huge personality problem like personality defect sure yeah yeah well i think because their whole lifestyle to a teenager is like it looks like your millionaire parents left you home alone with a lamborghini yeah and you can smoke weed in there and ride a hoverboard and it's all good yeah and you're the parent well also like the you know pull pranks on your bros yeah it's prank culture. Who doesn't, man? You ever pull any pranks on your bros? Oh, dude.

Dude. Every day. It's my lifestyle. Are you fucking kidding me? You're the manager of the regional prank. No, because I didn't want them to pull it on me because I find them hurtful. Do you ever do social experiments on people? I find them hurtful. Or I'm sorry,

do you ever do social experiments on people? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, constantly. How about you? You do anything good? Like when I was in high school, like I went to a boarding school and they like, you know, you're living on your own as a kid who's like not equipped. So we would always,

you know, one time we put a kid's entire room out on the lawn. Is that a prank uh that's a prank just passive aggressive hatred like hate move that's what a prank is a friend yeah i guess so right yeah but i guess the prank sometimes like you know you can gaslight people into thinking like their parents died in a car accident right you know what i mean and then be like i'm joking dude but you owe me five bucks for that blunt that's a sick prank right that is good yeah

I think I liked pranking people's younger siblings because it was oh yo I used to fucking pretend me and my friend would convince

his younger sister that we this sleeping bag was a time machine yeah and we would just drag her ass through the house

and be like oh shit there's dinosaurs. Just be hidden where we're pillows and shit. And I'd do that with my cousin, too. Damn. Shout out to my cousin, Austin. I mean, that is a good prank.

Who now has a circle tattoo on his throat. No way I would fall for that. Yeah, I mean, it seemed impossible. No way. But it's like, you're in a sleeping bag and we're hitting you with pillows. But we're calling it dinosaurs and you're in the prehistoric time. Look, we didn't have great ideas when we were 10. Let's workshop that.

Yeah, we'll do that. Let's talk about Rambo. There's a new Rambo that just came out this past weekend. And yeah, it's getting bad reviews, which most of the Rambo sequels have always gotten. The first one was sort of a you know a little bit more subtle of a movie about a Vietnam vet who was like damaged in a Travis Bickle from Taxi Driver sort of way and then he like goes off on a he gets like PTSD and goes off on a rampage in the

woods and there's but he only like kills one dude or something in the first movie. Oh, really? And then the second movie, by the time the second movie rolled around, he killed all of Vietnam. He killed the entire country. A bit of revisionist history. Yeah, so the second movie was like a huge, massive blockbuster. I think it was the biggest movie the year that it came out.

And the premise was he goes back to Vietnam and wins the Vietnam War for America by himself, by killing every Vietnamese soldier. And yeah, it was a monster hit. And Reagan loved it. And Reagan's followers loved it and it sounds like this sequel has a lot in common with that what's like preying on existing anxieties whether that was like being in denial that the u.s lost the vietnam war or this one being we're

afraid of brown people from south of the border. Yeah. Which I think this whole thing is operating off of, basically. So in this Rambo, he lives on a horse ranch in Arizona. He has a niece who we, he's been a complete loner up to this point. And apparently he had a niece this whole time. Was there any reference to Rambo having siblings ever? No. Oh, wow. So this is like the Miss Monopoly game.

We're like, who's Miss Monopoly? She's Mr. Monopoly's niece. You just heard of, so we can make a game for female entrepreneurs. Yeah. So anyway,

his niece wants to go to Mexico to find her birth father and he, uh, Rambo forbids her because it's Mexico. And that's like just self-evidently dangerous in this movie. Uh, And that's like just self-evidently dangerous in this movie. She goes anyway and is kidnapped and sold into sex slavery after a single night in Mexico. And the Mexican Bureau of Tourism funded this. Yeah, exactly. They're like, man, shit gets wild fat.

What the fuck? So the moral for anybody watching that is this niece disobeyed her uncle, goes to Mexico, and then look what happened. Right. You get taken, mom. This is how they are down there, man. Jesus. Fuck.

So Rambo takes on the Mexican rapists and murderers, and I don't know if you saw the last Rambo movie. I think it was the fourth one. You were getting fucked up. It's the most gratuitously violent movie I've ever seen. And apparently at the climax of the movie, there's a pointed shot of the border fence. Are you for real?

Yeah, yeah. Hey, when are we going to finish that wall? Right. Hey, maybe if there was a wall, we don't have to go down there and fight these guys. Yeah. So... Hey, when are we going to finish that wall? Right. Hey, maybe if there was a wall, we don't have to go down there and fight these guys. Yeah. I mean, he's going to be studied as a very successful and probably ignominious propagandist

years from now because of Rocky IV and Rambo II and now this movie. Until right now, I thought Rocky and Rambo were the same thing. Right. And that's fair. But are they associated? They're just both Sylvester Stallone and they're both one name words and one is a boxer and then one is a former soldier

who can just kill everyone at will. Kills everyone. Disembowel people. Truly crazy. Yeah. It is. But that's what's funny Because like

It's such a cultural icon Right Where like people think of like Being like Rambo Like I'm gonna be fucking Rambo Right Rambo's fucking strong He's like this American

Who don't fuck around Fucking kill brown people Doesn't fucking matter man Because Rambo Right You know Yeah I mean We love the branding

They're both inherently political Like Rambo is A stand in for You you know, like wounded Vietnam veterans who like came home and like felt like the country just like shit on them and didn't feel like they had like a victory to celebrate. And that was like the first time that veterans weren't treated well. And then Rocky was like this, you know, basically he beat Muhammad Ali in the first movie, like a stand-in for Muhammad Ali. And it's like a stand-in for basically white people's wish that they had a white champion that could like beat Muhammad Ali. There's this guy. Right, exactly.

He actually stole the story from a guy whose fight he went and saw. he actually stole this story from a guy whose fight he went and saw he saw a guy go 15 rounds with Muhammad Ali and like lose because he wasn't a very good fighter but he was just like some schlub white box and he was like what if but similar to Rocky like the first Rocky is sort of an art movie where you know there are consequences and he's mentally not all there. And then eventually it becomes this, he's just like a superhero doing American wishes for the American people. Right. Yeah. Well,

it's funny. Like every, I feel like every Republican president has been shown embodying Rambo in some way. Right. You know what I mean? Like there's always, I don't know if there's,

are there Obama Rambo posters? Cause you know, there's the Ronald Reagan ones. Right. You know what I mean? Like there's always, I don't know if there's, are there Obama Rambo posters? Because you know there's the Ronald Reagan ones. Right. There's a, there's Ronbo was a poster that was really popular

at the time with just a Rambo's body with Ronald Reagan's head poorly photoshopped onto it. It's really, it's a frightening image though. But it's such a powerful image because Reagan made like people in the 80s, it it's really because it's a frightening image though that but it's such a powerful image because

reagan made like people in the 80s conservatives in the 80s like so a rat like they were so fucking into reagan right but he was like an old man who was like kind of senile so like by attaching his head to like this body of like a powerful guy shooting a machine gun they like got to kind of do some wish fulfillment it kind of looks like how sylvester stallone looks now because he looks so old but he's all on that hgh right his body's all ripped up but his face looks like 700 years old yeah reagan actually like stepped into it and was talking about how Rambo inspired him to fuck up people who stood in the way of tax reform or some shit. And now there is a poster with Trump's face on Rambo's body. And it's only a matter of time until he starts talking about how much he loves Rambo and how he is like Rambo.

Really loves Rambo. Fuck him. Fuck. Part of me needs to see this and part of me doesn't want to see it but also it sounds like such a fucked up nightmare. You should buy a ticket for

Hustlers and then sneak into Rambo. Yeah, that's a good idea. That's my whole I'm telling everyone to do that if they want to see Ad Astra. You should buy your ticket for hustlers and then sneak into yeah that's a good idea that's my that's my whole i'm telling everyone to do that if they want to see ad astra like you should buy your ticket for hustlers and then go to ad astra did you see hustlers i did i saw it twice and i'm gonna see it is it amazing it's like i mean i i love it like it's just exactly like i think it's i mean it's for me i'm like the target demo 100 but like it's like I love like hot girls and like purple lights and so my aesthetic is hot girls

and purple lights. It's a great euphoria for grown ups. Yeah. Subtitle of the movie Hot Girls and Purple Lights. Maybe I'll just do that shit scumbag theater hopping. That's what I'm going to do on Saturday. I'm going to go see Hustlers again and I'm going to see Ad Astra. Damn. Yeah. Ad Astra. Damn.

Ad Astra is supposed to be really good too. Don't ask my mom her take on that. Oh yeah. Space? My mom's a film critic and sometimes I ask her. She has spicy takes. She's Japanese so sometimes her texts come a little jumbled

when she's talking in English. I think when I asked her, I said, how was that? She says, long, fell asleep. Rafael, her Spanish film critic friend said, my shorter version must be better. Some scenes are beautiful. Some articles said this movie could have been sublime, but ellipsis. Wow.

My mom, that's how she rates a film. If she falls asleep, it's a wrap. Yeah. And it's a wrap yeah and it's weird all those movies are too long like I think like all the man space movies like it's like

just cut him down why do they just get to it get to space I just know right just get to the cut to the space

go to fucking space the thing that in the Ad Astra thing that looks wild is there's like a fucking full on gunfight on like space rovers like moon rovers and shit

yeah like the idea that I think in Ad Astra it's like there's stuff a fucking full-on gunfight on like space rovers, like moon rovers and shit. Like the idea that, I think in Ad Astra, it's like there's stuff actually going on. Right. Versus like contemplative. What is like a gravity situation.

Right. We're floating. Yeah. Right. What'd you think of Interstellar? I fell asleep. Yeah. Great.

I like the idea. The only thing I took away from it was I like the idea of like the multiple dimensions or whatever. Like the, the isn't that that one i didn't see it because that's interstellar right you didn't see interstellar no and i we talked about this that's a lot of jessica chastain interstellar yes yeah okay yeah yeah what am i getting it mixed there's like another movie like it there is um which movie i? I can't remember. Yeah. There's so many. I think I like put them, I consolidate them in my head.

But yeah, I think I fell asleep, but I think I like the multiple dimensions. I will see it because the only reason I think I did it, and I said this before, is because it was one of the first, one of the times Chris Nolan put a film out

and people weren't unanimously like, wow, this is really good or worth seeing. People were like, well, some people liked it, some people didn't. Most people were like, it's worth seeing. I will see it.

I just, you know, I, I, I can, most of my time is spent watching 90 day fiance. So yeah, that's basically how I felt about it was not as good as 90 day fiance.

Yeah. I mean, 90 day fiance is crazy. Yeah. It's the greatest. It's the height of entertainment. Dana, it has been a pleasure having you on the daily zeitgeist.

Uh, where can people find you, follow you? You can follow me on Twitter. Dana Donnelly, it's at Dana and then D only. And you can follow me on Instagram at Hottest Dana. Is that an official title? Hottest Dana. Well, yeah, I'm like the hottest Dana in the world.

Because there's not that many people named Dana. There you go. I'm not like saying I'm like hottest Emily Ratajkowski, you know. Not a lower bar. Hottest Hannah, you know, hottest Kylie. I'm not, would never claim. Do I do my tweet? Yeah.

Okay. What is the tweet you've been enjoying? So my tweet that I've been enjoying is by this girl, Annie, and her handle is at waif and then 0000 and the tweet is when I say quote I have my own demons to deal with I mean my dad yelled at me

Miles where can people find you find me twitter instagram at miles of gray tweet I like. Well, first, a shout-out to Justin Chen, who gave me my Marco Royce hairdo. Pawned my head accurately. Look at you. To show me my dreams when my male pattern baldness has been overcome and I have beautiful soccer player hair.

And also, but a tweet I like is actually from Dan White at DanWhite. Would like to publicly apologize to Carlson Funeral Home and the entire Thompson family. I didn't realize it was inappropriate to shine my phone flashlight into the casket slash roll the body over a little bit. Again, again, I thought I saw a ladybug in there. I am sorry. Jess Bweck tweeted, the hardest part of dating Stephen Miller is finding a restaurant that will let you two sit down and eat your spider egg sacks.

Kate Berlant tweeted, just called a balloon store and asked if I needed an appointment or if I could just walk in. And you can follow me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page and a website, DailyZeitgeist.com, where we post our episodes and our footnotes.

Footnotes. We link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode as well as the song we ride out on. Miles, what are we riding into the week on? Just chill. Head nod. Chill head nod. Head nod beats from Deva Loop.

D-E-V-A-L-O-O-P. And it's called Suffer No Fools. Oh, shit. Yeah, and it's just, you know, instrumental shit. But just, you know, more like boom bap. You know? Just easy. It's Monday.

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